Extracts from press release from Adam Raoof.

The 1st ChessMaster British Blitz Chess Championships

The 1st ChessMaster British Blitz Chess Championships were held at Imperial College (London) on 6 & 7 November.

Cash prizes were very generously sponsored by Mindscape, creators of Chessmaster software, who over the weekend gave away 100 copies of their latest product "ChessMaster 7000".

Junior prizes of the easy-to-learn game "Boku" were donated by the London Game Company.

The team tournament on Saturday 6th was dominated by Hackney Chess Club, which fielded two very strong teams. Richmond Juniors Chess Club sent three teams. Altogether, 16 teams competed.

Team Prizes (scores out of a possible 72):

1st Hackney 'A' 61 British Team Blitz Champions
2nd Hackney 'B' 52
3rd Barbican 4NCL 48.5

u173 Imperial College 'A' 44
u143 Bucks Juniors 36.5

Jnr Richmond Juniors A (Ross Mooring (7½/16), Thomas Nixon (7/16), Robert Heaton (9½/16), Jonathan Somekh (9/16) 33

130 players attended the Individual Tournament on Sunday 7th. The following titles were awarded for 1999:

British Blitz Champion GRANDMASTER MICHAEL ADAMS British Blitz Ladies' Champion INTERNATIONAL MASTER HARRIET HUNT (Oxford, on tie-break from Jovanka Houska, both having 10.5 points)

British Blitz Junior Champion NICHOLAS FROST (Tiverton, Devon - on tie- break from Oliver Cooley, Thomas Rendle, Koichi Nicholas and Ezra Lutton, all on 8.5 points)

British Blitz Amateur Champion DAVID M EDWARDS (Richmond Juniors)

List of Prize-Winners (scores out of possible 18): CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION (open) 1st GM Michael Adams (Truro, World No 7 and UK No 1) 17
2nd GM James Plaskett (Hastings) 14.5
3rd IM Matthew Turner (Scunthorpe) 12.5
4th= IM Simon Ansell (Hackney), IM Graeme Buckley (Bushbury), IM Daniel Gormally (Hackney) 12

AMATEUR SECTION (under 150)
1st David M Edwards (Richmond Juniors)15.5
2nd= Alexander Lim (Hounslow), David Howell (Crowborough), Ross Rattray (Richmond Juniors) 12.5

u110 Christopher Kreuzer (Richmond Juniors) won the U110 Grading Prize